Year || Number of controls per­formed in shops and retailers || Number of consign­ments sampled for analysis || Number of commercial consign­ments seized in shops and retailers[9] || Number of commercial consign­ments destroyed from shops and retailers[10] || Number of targeted checks on internet selling websites || Number of targeted checks on packages sent by -mail

Multifunction Device: A Multifunction Device (MFD) is a physically integrated device or a combination of functionally integrated components (the ‘base unit’, see definition below) that produces hard copy duplicates from graphical hard copy originals (distinct from single sheet convenience copying, see next paragraph) as well as performing one or both of the following core functions: printing of documents (from digital information received from direct connect computers, networked computers, file servers and fax transmissions) or faxing (send and receive).

a telephone call and/or telex or fax to their destination;

It proposes to make the sending of unrequested advertisements by fax a punishable offence.

Eventually, customs processing will be made possible through the use of Internet and the implementation of an electronic system as simple as the sending of a fax, as well as the release and reporting of goods, and the payment of duties and taxes, without having to go to the customs office.

Today, farmers phone ahead, send a fax, or check on the Internet to learn the price of grain.